CPI(M) Polit Bureau member Pinarayi Vijayan has said that the Left has no plan to wean away Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) from the ruling UDF.
Replying to questions at a meet-the-press programme here on Monday, Mr. Vijayan said that though the UDF was being led by the Congress, the strongest pillars of the alliance were IUML and KC(M). “We don’t harbour any illusions about them,” he said and added that this was not the time to discuss the communal content of the IUML.
The Left had made its evaluation of the IUML long go and there was no need for any fresh evaluation. Existence of minority communalism was a reality in Kerala, but its most potent representative was not the IUML, but the SDPI. The Left had no soft corner for either majority communalism or majority communalism. For the Left, the main enemy in Kerala was the UDF, but it would also oppose the BJP strongly and would not allow it to drive roots in the State, Mr. Vijayan said.
